Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-01-20

Rellleui tneH the LOru VIII uNIue ~ up among
the good.
II my text be not deception, but tn,
eternal truth, then the time Is coming wher
all the farms will be owned BY Christian
farmers, and all the commerce controlled
by Christian merchants, and all the au
thority held by Christian officials, and al
the ships commanded by Christian captains
and all the universities under the instruction
of Christian professors; Christian kings
Christian presidents, Christian governors
Christian mayors, Christian common council.
Yet, what securing out! what an upturning
what demolition what a resurrection must
precede this new apportionment!
| do not undcrrate the enemy. Julius
Caesar got his greatest victories by fully esti
mating the yastness OF his foes and prepared
his men for their greatest triumph by saying:
Tomorrow King Juba will be here with
thirty thousand horses, one hundred thousand
sklrinishers and three hundred Elephants y
do not underrate the vast forces OF Sin and
Death, but do you know who commands us!
Jehovah-Jireh. And the reserve corps behind
US are all the armies of heaven and earth,
with hurricane and thunderbolt The good
work OF the worlds redemption is going on
every minute. Never so many splendid men
and glorious women on the side of right as
20 day. Never SO many good people as now.
D,ogenes has been spoken OF us wise man
because he went with a lantern at MONDAY,
saving he was looking for an honest man. IL
he had turned his lantern towards himself he
might have discovered crank.
Honest men by the ten thousand Through
the International Series of Sunday School
Lessons the next generation all through
Christendom are going to be wiser than any
generation since the world stood. The king
dom IL coming. God can do it, No housewife
with a chamois Goth ever polished silver
teaspoon with more ease than Christ will rub
of from this world the tarnish, and brighten
n N NJ Till ~ fsln lflga hanynn aud then tho
glorious apportionmeut. for my text is rein
forced by score Of other texts, when il SAYS
of Christi "Ho shall divide the spoil with the
strong"
But" you say, ''that this is pleasant to
think of for others, but before that time
shall have passed up into another existence,
and shall get no advantage from that new
apportionmeut." All, you have only driven
me to the other more exciting and transport
Ing consideration, and that is Christ is going
to divide up heaven In the same way. There
are old estates In the celestial world that have
been In the poss ssion Of its inhabitants for
OF wears, and they shall remain
as they are. There are old family mansions in
heaven filed with whole generations or kin.
bred, and they shall never be driven out.
Many OF the victOrs from earth have already
got their palaces, and they are pointed ont to
to those newly arrived Soon after our getting
there we viii ask to be shown the Apostolic
residences, and ask where does Paul live, and
John, and shown the patriarchal residences,
aud shall say: "Where does Abraham live, or
Jacob" and shown the martyr residences and
sayi "Where does John Huss live, and Rid
lcyF We viii want TO see the bOuleyards
where the chariots Of conquerors roll. will
want to see the gardens where the princes
walked.
We will want TO see Music Row, where Han
del, and Haydn. and Mozart and Charles
Wesley, and Thomas Hastings, and Bradbury
have their homes, out Of their windows, ever
and anon, rolling some sonnet Of an earthly
orator o Or hymn transported with the com
poser. We will want TO see Revival Terrace,
where Whitefed. and Nettleton, and Payson,
and Rowland II II, aud Charles Finney, and
other ants of soul-reapjng are resting from
their almost supernatural laborS, their doors
with converts just arrived, coming to
report themselves.
But brilliant as the sunset, and like
the leaves for number, are the celes-
tial homes yet to be awarded, when
Christ to you, and the millions Of others,
shall divide the spoil. What do you want
therel You shall have 1t. An orchard! There
it is; twelve manner Of fruit, and fruit every
month. Do you want river scener,i Take
your choice on the banks of the river in long
er, wider, deeper roll than Danube, or ANA
zou, or Mississippi. if mingled in one, and emp
tNing inlO the sea of glass mingled with fire.
Do you want your kindred back again: Go
OUT anu llltt't Nbul llLllci ubt llDlhNl hIhhOu'
the staff or stoop and your CHI ldren In dance
of immoral glce. Do YOU want a throne! Sc
lect it from the million FURNISHED elevations.
Do you want a crown! Pick 1t out Of that
of diamODded cOrOnets. Do you
want YOUR old church friends of earth around
voui Begin to hum an old revival tune and
they will flock from all quarters to reyel with
YOU in sacred "reminiscences. All the earth for
those who are here on earth at the time OF
continental and planetary distribution, and all
the heavens for those who are there.
That heavenly distribution of spoils will be
a surprise to many. Here enters heaven the
soul Of a man who took up a great deal OF
room on earth, but sacrificed little, and among
his good work, sc tishness was cyident lie
Just crowds through the shining gate, but 1t
Is very tight squeeze so that the dOOr-keep2r
has to pull away to get him in, and this man
expects half heaven for his share OF trophies,
and he would like a monopoly of all his splen-
dor, and to purchase lots in the suburbs so
that he could get advantage from the growth
of the eitr We'll, he had little grace of
heart, lust enough to get him through, and to
him is given second hand crown which one
of the sa nts wore at the start, but exchanged
for brighter one as he went on from glory to
glory And lie is put in an old house
once occupied by an angel who was
hurled out of Heaven at the time Of Satan's
Right after him comes soul that makes a
great stir among the celestlals, and the angels
rush 10 the scene each bringing to her daZ-
zling coronet. Who is she! Over what realm
on earth was she queen, In what great Dus-
seld0Tf festival was she the cantatrice!
Neither. She was an invalid who never left
her room for twenty years; but she was strong
in prayer, aad she prayed down revival after
revival, and peutccOst after pentccost, upon
the churches, and with her pale hands she knit
many a mitten and tippet for the poor, and
with her COntrvances she added JOY to many a
holiday festival, and now, with those thin
hands so strong for kindness, ard with those
white lips so strong for suppication, she has
won coronation, and enthronement, and Jubi-
lee. And Christ says to the angles VINO nave
brought each a crown for the gloriied invalid:
mo. not these; they are not good enough
But in the iewelled vase at the right hand side
of my throne there is one that nave been
preparing for her many year, and Tor her
every pang have set an amethyst, ana Tor
her every good deed / have set pearl.
Fetch it now and fulfill the promise gave her
long ago, in the sick room: BE thou faithful
unto death, and will give thee crown"
What day it will be- This entire assem-
blage would rise to your feet II you could real
ize it, the day in which Christ shall, in fulfill
ment OF my text, divide the spoil 1t was a
great dav when Queen Victoria, in the midst
OF the Crlmean war, distributed medals to the
soldiers who had come home sick and wound
ed At the Horse Guards, in the presence OF
the roval family, the injured men were carried
i'm or came on crutches-Colonel Trowbridge,
who lost both feet at Inkerman; and Captain
Saver, who had the ankle joint of his rightleg
shot off at Alma: aud Captain Cure, bis disa-
bled limb supported by soldier and Others
manned, and disfgured, and exhausted-and
with her own hand the queen gave each the
Crimean medal. And what triumphant days
for those soldiers when further on, they re-
ceived the French medal with the imperial
eagle, and the Turkish medal with its repre-
seutation of four fags-France, Turkey, Eng
land and SardRia-and beneath II map OF
the Crimea spread over gun wheel.
And what rewards are suggested to all
readers Of history by the mere mention Of the
Waterloo medal, and the Cape medal, and the
Gold Cross medal, and the medal struck for
bravery in our American wart But how insig
nificant all these compared with the day when
the good soldiers Of Jesus Christ shall come In
out Of the battles Of this world, and In the
presence Of all the piled-up glories Of the re.
deemed and the unfalleB, Jesus, our King
shall divide the spoil The more wounds, the
greater the inheritances. The longer the
forced march, the more vivid the trophy. The
more terrible the exhaustion, the more un
troubled the transport. Not the gift OF bril-
liant ribbon, or a medal Of brass, or silver, OF
gold, but kingdom in which we are to regr
for ever and ever Mansions on the eterna
hills. DominiOns Of unfading power. En-
pires Of unendug love. Continents of ever
lasting light. Atlantic and Pacific oceans o
blllowing Joy. II was great DAY when Azure
Ian, the Roman emperor, came back from hi
victories. In the front OF the procession wer
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